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Post‐traumatic paraureteral urinoma in a cat
Author(s) -
Worth A. J.,
Tomlin S. C.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2004.tb00258.x
Subject(s) - medicine , urinoma , retroperitoneal space , ureter , plain radiography , pelvis , radiography , radiology , nephrectomy , pyelogram , intravenous urography , soft tissue , surgery , renal pelvis , kidney , anatomy , urinary system
A retroperitoneal urinoma (uriniferous pseudocyst) was diagnosed in a domestic shorthair cat exhibiting a sublumbar swelling two weeks after a road traffic accident. Plain radiography revealed a soft tissue opacity in the left retroperitoneal space. Intravenous urography and fine‐needle aspiration were diagnostic. Contrast was seen pooling in the dilated ipsilateral renal pelvis and proximal ureter. Fluid aspirated from the retroperitoneal space had a creatinine level five times that of serum. Surgical drainage followed by nephrectomy and omentalisation of the pseudocyst was curative.